What Do You Do With A Kangaroo?

by Mercer Mayer

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A little girl copes with a variety of animals who try to take over her things and order her about.

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Here you are, going through your day, and you KEEP on and KEEP on being RUDELY interrupted by the wildlife! What do you do when the kangaroo demands you make your bed for him to take a nap? What do you do when an opossum starts brushing his teeth like he owns the place, squirting toothpaste all over the floor? What do you do when a tiger takes your trike and insists you push him on it?

YOU THROW THEM OUT!

Of course, if you can't, you might all just have to snuggle up together and go to bed. It's been a long day :)
This is a very cute story for students at the elementary school level. The story is somewhat repetitive, using the question "What do you do?" This is great because students can read this repetitive sentence with the teacher. The pages are also fun and colorful.
It is quite comical that the little girls just gets so frustrated with these animals as they continue to nag and bug her for things and use her belongings. At the end of the day after all the critters have continued to annoy her, she realizes they are asleep in her bed. She is too tired to get them out so she lets them stay after all.
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This book is great. It tells the story of a young girl who unintentionally finds herself with one too many animal visitors. It's clever and the illustrations are beautiful. You can use this in the classroom setting to make children laugh or teach them about various animals.
This is a very repetitive story to read to beginning readers. The fact that it asks the same question over and over is very good for younger readers to listen to. They will know that it's going to ask the same question again and they can fill in the blank while reading it.
A little girl wakes up to find a kangaroo telling her to move he would like to have her bed. She doesn't know what to do, and then her day gets crazier. There is a opsossum in her bathroom when she tries to wash her face, a racoon in her kitchen, a moose in her doorway, a camel in her bathtub, and more! She says that you should kick the animals out, but she can't! In the end, she lets them all sleep in her bed, and she joins them.
Very cute. And the MC is delightfully sassy.

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Mercer Mayer was born December 30, 1943 in Little Rock Arkansas. While attending school at the Honolulu Museum of Art, Mayer decided to enter the field of children's book illustration. He created a portfolio of sketches and peddled them wherever he could. He moved to New York City in 1964, pursuing further instruction at the Art Students League of show more New York, where he met an artist named Marianna who became his first wife. He soon created a new portfolio and with these new sketches persuaded editors at Dial Press and Harper & Row to give him some illustration work. Mayer published his first book, A Boy, a Dog, and a Frog, at Dial Press in 1967. It was notable for being a completely wordless picture book one that tells its story entirely with pictures. Mayer was one of the first illustrators to be credited for using this format. Five more books in this series were to follow. Mayer joined Golden Publishing, creators of Little Golden Books, in 1976. Through them he has sold his "Little Critter" and "Little Monster" series, which are popular with beginning readers. His title Just Me and My Dad made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2012. In 2015, his title Little Critter: Just a Little Love, also made the list. His holiday book, Merry Christmas Mom and Dad, is also a bestseller. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Original title
What Do You Do With a Kangaroo?
Original publication date
1975
Dedication
For Pat
First words
What do you do with a Kangaroo who jumps in your window, sits on your bed, and says, "I never sleep on wrinkled sheets, so change them now and make them smooth, and fluff up the pillows if you please."
Last words
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)You let them stay.

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Children's Books, Picture Books
DDC/MDS
813.54Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English1900-19991945-1999
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PZ7 .M462 .WLanguage and LiteratureFiction and juvenile belles lettresFiction and juvenile belles lettresJuvenile belles lettres
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